[Fedora-xen] diskless boot

From: Luca <lucarx76 gmail com>

To: fedora-xen redhat com

Subject: [Fedora-xen] diskless boot

Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:27:06 -0700

Hi all, following the fedora-xen instruction, I was able to install XEN and Domain 0 and create an initial ram disk with mkinitrd
(which will then mount the real root filesystem located on an hard
drive on the same workstation).

I wonder if what follows, is possible.

On a workstation, I would not install anything. Instead I would use etherboot, for instance, to download Xen hypervisor, Domain 0 and an initial ram disk from a server. Everything would be loaded in memory. The initial ram disk would then mount the real root filesystem, located this time not on the same workstation, but on a different workstation connected to the network.

I have tried building by myself an initial ram disk capable of mounting a real filesystem located on a different workstation but it didn't work. I'm not a fedora or Xen expert, so I hope someone here could help me.